Lectures on the Principles of Demonstrative MathematicsA. and C. Black, 1843 - 147 páginas |
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... means . Optics and geometry are developed by like arguments . Or is it to be referred to the difference in nature between a physical science , which depends on ex- perimental laws , and geometry , the laws of which are necessary truths ...
... means . Optics and geometry are developed by like arguments . Or is it to be referred to the difference in nature between a physical science , which depends on ex- perimental laws , and geometry , the laws of which are necessary truths ...
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... means of cultivating it , is more greedily seized on by the philoso- pher . 3. We proceed now to trace the history of a few indi- vidual discoveries , and to exhibit the rapidity with which particular branches of science rose to ...
... means of cultivating it , is more greedily seized on by the philoso- pher . 3. We proceed now to trace the history of a few indi- vidual discoveries , and to exhibit the rapidity with which particular branches of science rose to ...
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... mean proportionals between two given straight lines . This fact teaches us that the doctrine of proportionals had then made considerable advance . To the school of Plato we owe the geometric analysis and the conic sections : the for ...
... mean proportionals between two given straight lines . This fact teaches us that the doctrine of proportionals had then made considerable advance . To the school of Plato we owe the geometric analysis and the conic sections : the for ...
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... means of it that any subject of inquiry is brought before the mind , in a manner calculated to yield sound views and accu- rate conclusions ; and the deficiency of it is the source of those partial and distorted impressions by which men ...
... means of it that any subject of inquiry is brought before the mind , in a manner calculated to yield sound views and accu- rate conclusions ; and the deficiency of it is the source of those partial and distorted impressions by which men ...
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... he requires a property of a straight line for its definition . Lecture viii . § Beddoes , Observations on the Nature of Demonstrative Evidence , p . 15 . senses are certainly the means of communication , and are 36 LECTURE II .
... he requires a property of a straight line for its definition . Lecture viii . § Beddoes , Observations on the Nature of Demonstrative Evidence , p . 15 . senses are certainly the means of communication , and are 36 LECTURE II .
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Página 64 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Página 38 - A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference.
Página 52 - Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side.
Página 96 - ... of the second and fourth ; if the multiple of the first be less than that of the second, the multiple of the third is also less than that of the fourth: or, if the multiple of the first be equal to that of the second, the multiple of the third is also equal to that of the fourth...
Página 122 - Whatever form is algebraically equivalent to another when expressed in general symbols, must continue to be equivalent whatever those symbols denote.
Página 17 - It is certain that from its completeness, uniformity and faultlessness, from its arrangement and progressive character, and from the universal adoption of the completest and best line of argument, Euclid's " Elements " stand preeminently at the head of all human productions.
Página 38 - Of four-sided figures, a square is that which has all its sides equal, and all its angles right angles.
Página 67 - Parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet.
Página 88 - But when four magnitudes are proportionals, if the first be greater than the third, the second is greater than the fourth ; and if equal, equal; if less, less; (v.
Página 25 - That all our cognition," he says, " begins with experience, there is not any doubt ; for how otherwise should the faculty of cognition be awakened into exercise, if this did not occur through objects which affect our senses...